Climbot-Ω: A Soft Robot with Novel Grippers and Rigid-compliantly Constrained Body for Climbing on Various Poles

Manjia Su,Yu Qiu,Yisheng Guan,Haifei Zhu,Zhi Liu,Manjia Su,Yu Qiu,Yisheng Guan,Haifei Zhu,Zhi Liu

Soft climbing robots have been attracting increasing attention in soft robotics community, and a lot of prototypes been proposed with basic climbing function implemented. Climbing on poles is a challenge with soft robots, and the capability of current pole-climbing soft robots needs to be improved in terms of adaptability to various poles and deformation controllability or constraining of the soft...